A long anticipated birthday

Turning four!

Two weeks ago (June 18th) was Katanya's birthday. She had counted down for weeks and when asked what she wanted she replied "a real phone (interpretation: cell phone). So a couple days before I sat her down and told her she was too young to have a phone and she said, "Okay, I'll wait til I turn five."
So instead she got an "ipod" (interpretation: mp3 player). Every other kid had one and she was always listening to one of theirs.
We celebrated early in the afternoon and had an ice cream cake. We headed down to Utah that night where we spent the weekend with the Kerksiek family.